Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

If [Eva Braun] was crying upstairs, it wouldn't be long before [Adolf] Hitler would quietly excuse himself and then make things right. What he said to her, I don't know. Whether he said the words "I'm sorry," I don't know. But he was a charmer, he knew how to stop a woman from crying.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.

If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses.

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

I made a mistake using a private e- mail.And if I had to do it over again, I would, obviously, do it differently. But I'm not going to make any excuses. It was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

I'm going to live until I die, and everything in between is just another excuse to eat peanut butter.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.